A little over a year ago the gun sounded and I headed out on the adventure of running my first long distance race, a half-marathon through the rural hills of Portland, Oregon. Despite hating running long distances in high school and college I have come to appreciate the kind of devotion it takes to prepare…
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What 5 Years of Blogging Can Teach You
I got to talking with someone about writing and blogging last week and I quickly realized, I’ve now been blogging and teaching blogging courses for 5 years. I started in late September 2007 on this space, before I moved to WordPress, and then I switched once more to this space. I’m sure there’s one or…
When the Well Runs Dry
I had this thought last week: “The well is dry.” It was an interesting thought because I was doing all the right things in order to cultivate newness within my thoughts and life, but it was the reality I had run up against. I was running on empty. Those of you who consider yourselves to…
The Three: Writing Edition
1. A couple weeks back I wrote a guest post for Jeff Goins on how I found the time to write a book in the midst of everything else I had going on in life. It’s the thing #1 people asked me while I was writing the manuscript, and honestly I even surprised myself by…
All Good Things Must End
Every October many of the players on the baseball teams in the playoffs grow out beards until their playoff run comes to an end. I took my own little twist on this time-honored tradition by growing out a manuscript writing beard. Being that I’m in Portland the beard didn’t really stand out too much. After…
The Three
After a bit of a hiatus over late December I’m back with the somewhat weekly installment of three great articles/blogs/videos/etc. As many of you know I posted a link carnival of sorts every week for over two years. For the sake of discussion and only putting out what I see to be high quality content…